Henri Flohr

Henri Flohr
Mayor of Hitiaa O Te Ra
Incumbent
Assumed office
28 June 2020
Preceded byDauphin Domingo
In office
1989 – 31 March 2014
Succeeded byDauphin Domingo
Member of the French Polynesian Assembly
for Windward Isles 2
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 May 2013
In office
17 March 1991 – 9 September 2003
Personal details
Born1952[1]
Huahine
Political partyTahoera'a Huiraatira
Tāpura Huiraʻatira

Henri Flohr (born 1952) is a French Polynesian politician and Member of the Assembly of French Polynesia. He has served as Mayor of Hitiaa O Te Ra since 2014, having previously served from 1989 to 2008. Previously a member of Tahoera'a Huiraatira, he is now a member of Tāpura Huiraʻatira.

Flohr is originally from Huahine.[2] He was elected Mayor of Hitiaa O Te Ra in 1989.[2]

He was first elected to the Assembly of French Polynesia as a Tahoera'a candidate in the 1991 French Polynesian legislative election.[2][1] In 2002 he was convicted of misuse of public funds and disqualified from office. Despite this, President of the Assembly Lucette Taero refused to remove him from the Assembly. He eventually resigned in September 2003,[3] but the failure of authorities to remove him from office resulted in French High Commissioner Michel Mathieu being prosecuted for abuse of office.[4]

He was re-elected to the Assembly as a Tahoera'a candidate in the 2013 election.[5]

In the 2014 municipal elections he was comfortably re-elected as a councillor in the first round, but lost his seat (and the mayoralty) in the second.[6] He organised a mass-resignation of Tahoera'a councillors,[7] forcing new elections.[8] and was re-elected as a councillor,[9] but lost the mayoralty to Dauphin Domingo.[10]

In June 2015 he resigned from the Tahoera'a group in the Assembly to join Édouard Fritch's Tāpura Huiraʻatira.[11][12] He was re-elected to the Assembly as a Tāpura candidate in the 2018 election.[13]

He led the Tāpura list in Hitiaa O Te Ra at the 2020 municipal elections.[14] and was re-elected both as a councillor and as mayor.[15]

He was re-elected to the Assembly at the 2023 election.[16]

References

  1. ^ a b "Henri FLOHR". Assemblée de la Polynésie française. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Qui sont nos 57 nouveaux élus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Convicted French Polynesian MP resigns". RNZ. 9 September 2003. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Ruling deferred in court case against French high commissioner in French Polynesia". RNZ. 20 November 2003. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  5. ^ "La composition de la nouvelle Assemblée de Polynésie" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 5 May 2013. Archived from the original on 8 May 2013.
  6. ^ "Municipales 2014 : les plus et les moins des trois formations politiques polynésiennes" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 31 March 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Municipales : les conseillers orange de Papenoo démissionnent en bloc" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 15 April 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Hitia'a O Te Ra : de nouvelles élections municipales dans quelques semaines" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 17 April 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Municipales à Hitia'a O Te Ra : Drollet, Flohr et Domingo réélus" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  10. ^ "Domingo réélu à Hitia'a o te ra, Flohr de nouveau écarté" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  11. ^ "Tahoeraa loses another Tahiti assembly member". RNZ. 11 June 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  12. ^ "Tapura : Henri Flohr rejoint le groupe des frondeurs" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  13. ^ "Territoriales : les résultats définitifs publiés par le haut-commissariat" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 7 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Henri Flohr candidat Tapura à Hitia'a o te Ra" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  15. ^ "Henri Flohr reprend son fief à Hitia'a o te Ra" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 28 June 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  16. ^ "La nouvelle composition de l'assemblée" (in French). Tahiti Infos. 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.